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    Windows 7 Power supply quesiton.

    Will Asus ENGTX 275 ( which has recommended of 550 W power supply ) run good on my comp with 600w power supply ? Edit: other specs : Got 2 Sata hard drives ( 500gb ) 4gb of ram GA-P31-DS3L motherboard , runnin' with Quad core 2.4ghz
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    Windows 7 Image Trembling - This is interesting

    On three computers in the house out of 6, we have image trembling on the display. The problem is minor at times and horrendous at others. I have had this problem for a fair few months now on my desktop. I have also noticed the problem now on my laptop, and my brother's PC is showing the same...
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    Windows 7 Weird Lines occurring in random windows.

    This has been happening in the title bars and main portion of windows I open (whether it be Firefox, MS Office, Windows Live messenger, VLC media player). I recently upgraded from Vista and right after I had done so, I upgraded my display drivers to the latest one (According to Intel) which are...
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    Windows 7 Explorer freezes when alt tabbing from fullscreen program.

    Hey guys. I just bought a new computer running Windows 7, and it is a great operating system. However, I am having one minor problem. When I am running a fullscreen game such as counter-strike or left 4 dead and I minimize by either Alt-Tabbing or hitting the windows key, it partially shows...
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    Windows 7 Issue with installtion of video games and video/audio streams

    So I bought a new computer with black friday and it has win7 and I'm having issues. Steam is not working AKA every time I'm at the login screen it's stuck on processing and stays there and if it does log in, it's stuck on updating my game list. Also, whenever I try to start downloading and...
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    Windows 7 Windows Media Center issue

    Computer specs: P4 2.60 Ghz 2GB ram Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit NVidia GeForce FX 5500 Having issues with Windows Media Center, for some reason when I start this program the audio and video stutters. Even when you play dvds. (via HD or dvd drive) All drivers have been updated to the latest...
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    Windows 7 Doesn't make it to installation

    Hey guys, Im currently running Windows 7 x84 and would like to upgrade/install Windows 7 x64. I have the disc (Downloaded from MSDN, i am a current member with the correct cd keys and everything) but i place it in the drive, boot from it, it gets just past the Windows is loading setup files or...
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    Windows 7 Importing Favorites

    I am running Vista Home Premium 64 Bit and Windows 7 64 Bit. I am duls booting. I went to import Bookmarks(Favorites into Win 7 from Vista. When I browse for the file and find my Vista Favorites while in Win 7.I click on it and get file has to be htm. Favorites in Vista are just Favorites no...
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    Windows 7 USB ports not working after Instal

    Tried some suggestions, but nothing seems to work. This is what i have done. Installed Windows 7--->USB ports do not work. 1. Tried uninstalling/reinstalling them...no good 2. Tried downloading from Intels website--->Got error message saying my computer does not meet minimum specs for program...
  10. Windows 7 Randomly disconnecting ... (Home network, no internet access)

    Hello to all. I'm new on W7 forum. The fix of halcion1's didn't helped for me (it did, but not for a long) I still have problems with disconnecting from internet (Home network > Network access works, but no Internet access). I've already unticked IPv6, disabled/deleted the Bonjour service/map...
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    Windows 7 Slow installation/freezes at "Completing Installation"

    Hello guys. I just got my Windows 7 copy from Amazon and happily proceeded to perform a clean install. Happily my ass. Anyway, everything went fine, I formated my hard drive and hit the install button. Extracting and all that went fine, at one point it required a reboot and did so. After the...
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    Windows 7 Recommended Upgrade?

    I am testing out Windows 7 having come from XP. My spec is as follows: Processor: 2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core, 256 kilobyte primary memory cache, 1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache, 64-bit ready, Multi-core (2 total), Not hyper-threaded Motherboard: MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0, Bus...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 lag

    hello i got a problem with my computer. its lags all the time even when im doing nothing... it run smothly but every few sec there is a lag even the mouse and sound is lagging. it started when moved to this school and they only got wireless so i got a linksys WMP600N adapter with dual-band so i...
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    Windows 7 "New" context menu items missing only in explorer windows

    Hello, I've encountered the following problem: When I open an explorer window (ie. browse a directory), right click and select the "New" context menu, I can only see "Folder" Listed. However, when I right click on the desktop and go on the "New" menu, I can see all my regular options listed...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 hangs on Welcome Screen! No Safe Mode!

    I've been running Windows 7 (32-bit, I believe) for a couple of months now. I'm sorry, but I don't know the build number or where to look for it. I was writing an e-mail in Firefox when suddenly Firefox stopped responding. After a minute I tried to run the task manager, but my computer had...
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    Windows 7 need help to debug my bluescreen problem .dmp file

    I don't have any problems while I am working on the computer but when I leave it alone for a few hours I'll come back home and its been shut off. When I turn it back on it shows it crashed with a Bluescreen. I tried to debug the .dmp file windows 7 rtm spits out but the Debugging Tools for...
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    Windows 7 Blackscreaning when started a game

    Hello guys, since I installed Windows 7 I have constant blacscreaning when I start a game ( for example Crysis, Cod 5 ), problem which I didn't have when I used Vista. I reinstalled again Windows 7 but the problem continues and the worst part is that when I get the black screen the copmuter...
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    Windows 7 Internal HDD converted to External HDD

    Hi, I currently have 2 HDD's 1 - Western Digital 640 GB (SATA), partitioned into 450 GB and 190 GB 2 - Seagete 160 GB (IDE), paritioned into 100 GB and 60 GB When I installed windows 7 (fresh install), all four partitions were recognized properly. Though the drive letter assignment was a...
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    Windows 7 Problems with Windows 7

    Well, more like 2 problems only to be exact. I cannot seem to delete a movie file from my computer... or transfer it... or rename it. It is forever stuck on Imageshack - problemv Originally i couldn't even right click it but i managed to fix it using the shell ex configure. Also, my SD card...
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    Windows 7 Problem with my Windows7, experience constant lagging

    Hey! Just gotta say that so long as i've used Windows7 it's so far a really good app, with some minor changes it could be the next big thing. But i've got a issue, an annoying one. It's like this: My windows lags when i scroll at a webpage or anything, scrolling overall. Example, in WMP it...